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We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.

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Uta Hagen
Age: 84 †
Born: 1919
Born: June 12
Died: 2004
Died: January 1
Actress
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Stage Actor
Teacher
Television Actor
Uta Thyra Hagen
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I love going to the movies I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.
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Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
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All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
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no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
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Thoughts and feelings are suspended in a vacuum unless they instigate and feed the selected actions, and it is the characters actions which reveal the character in the play.
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For some strange reason, we believe that anyone who lived before we were born was in some peculiar way a different kind of human being from any we have come in contact with in our own lifetime. This concept must be changed we must realize in our bones that almost everything in time and history has changed except the human being.
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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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The actor must know that since he, himself, is the instrument, he must play on it to serve the character with the same effortless dexterity with which the violinist makes music on his. Just because he doesn't look like a violin is no reason to assume his techniques should be thought of as less difficult.
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Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
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It must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal interpretations of the work, tending to freeze the new ideas and language into an inflexible, static condition.
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I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest that's why I love it most.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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Usually, someone who's in a show gets me a ticket. I feel cornered. I can't walk out if I don't like it.
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Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity easy vulnerability high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting intensely) a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.
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Awards don't really mean much.
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The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.
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Once in a while, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.
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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
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I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.
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We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.
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